The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHB cnolcrn epidemic In Bucn0s Ayrcs -
on the decline.
THE lord mayors dinner in London thiA
year cost 5000
A New YoRK bride, q few days ago, had
ten bridesmaids.
TnE holiday trade is immense and shows
aplentitude Of cash
1T cost New York City $4,000 to convict
Alderman McQuade.
IT looks as If Washington and Montana
might be admitted as States.
LANeTRY intends endowing u home for
INDECENT respectable women.
MIR. JONES, Of Waterloo, Kan, has named
his thirteenth son Chestnut Jones.
ENGLISH professional beauties are not at
tracting much attention ut present.
SECRETARY LAMAR thinks Lowell the best
master Of pure English now living.
AMERICA is exporting plum-pudding to
England in considerable quantities.
The trouble between the Knights of La
Dor and es-Unions is increasing.
ST. PAUL has invested this year in new
buildings S0,65S, ,692 That looks healthy.
a CONGRESSIONAL funeral nowadays
costs the Government from 5000 to Sl5,-
900.
THE trip from Dcadwood, Oak, to New
York can now be made in three days and q
half.
1HE Sultan of Turkey, like the Car of
Russia, is in constant dread of assassina-
tion.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is clever
pianist, and often plays at charity con-
certs.
THE U. S. Grand Jury in st. Louis found
seventy-twO indictments for election
frauds
CONGRESSMAN HoGG, of West Virginia,
is the youngest member of the next Nation
al House.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND persons are en-
ployed in making clothing in New York
and vicinity.
THE Indian prisoners occupy 1917 tents
upon the ramparts of old Fort Marion, st.
Augustine, Fla.
THE advance in the price of pig iron is
being followed by advances in various lines
OF manufacture.
In South Carolina there is no divorce
law, and the marriage relation can only be
severed by death.
IONA COUNTY (Mich.) boasts Of boy
only eighteen years old who is six feet
eleven inches tall.
JAY GOULD has rented a pew in DIR. John
r. Paxton's church, on Forty-second street,
New York, for 81, 800 q year.
Or seventy three important towns in Col
orado, twelve are above 5000 feet and ten
above 10000 feet above sea level.
A SINGLE sale Of wheat was recently
made in Tahoma County, Cal, the money
payment involved being S25000O.
Elk SENATOR THURMAN is seventy two
years old, worth s50O,OO0, and frankly ad-
fnits that he would like to be President.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL has received from
Queen Victoria grant of $500 in recogni-
tion of her services to workingwomen.
Mrs. CLEVELAND promises to favor the
reform movement which asks ladies' to
remove their hats on entering theater.
DAKOTA wants women and is getting them
pretty fast Statistics show that the birth
proportion is about three girls to one boy.
THE Russian Minister at Washington is
allowed s25,OO0 year by his Government
for the purpose of giving entertainments.
THE married men of Holly, Mich, are to
play q match game of base ball with the
women Of that town who want to get mar
ried.
MORE than fifty colored men hold clerk
ships in the departments at Washington
ut salaries ranging from 1900 to 81, 700 per
annum.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, seventy
six years old, is the oldest man in the Sen
ate. Payne, of Ohio, is seven months
younger.
THE peppermint, spearmint, tansy and
wOrmwood oil crops of st. Joseph and
Cass County, Mich, amount this season to
10000 pounds.
A CHECK for ono cent was drawn in New
York by the Government in favor of an
Importer who had paid excess of duty to
that extent.
To enable the judge to pass OH the charge
against John Dillon without recourse to
jury they went back to a statute as old as
Edward ILL.,
IT is stated that Krupp has an order
from Russia for large number of forty
three-tOn guns to be delivered next spring
Mt Sebastopol.
A HABIT of chewing tea leaves brought on
attacks resembling delirium tremens in
girl whose case is reported in London
medical journal
A DOCUMENT has been presented to the
King Of Sweden containing 1864 sigma
lures to a petition for the suppression of
obscene literature.
A BATH containing twenty grains sui
phate of copper per litre of water will pre-
serve ropes used for scaffolding purposes
from rot and from animal parasites. Soak
them we'll
MEXICAN ladies wear imported Parisian
hats. No lady wears q bonnet to church,
the proper headgear being the swillana,
small mantilla, which is singularly becom-
ing to all women.
The Plonk family in Lincolnton, N. c., is
1ong-lived. Joseph is now ninety y-eight
years old; his sister, Mrs. Tethrow, is 100
years; and Mrs. Weaver, another sister, is
102 years of age.
THE correct pronunciation of theoname
of the distinguished Hungarian painter,
Mihaly, or Michael Munkacsy, is as if it
were spelt Moon-katchee, the accent being 4,
on the first syllable.
THE Prohibition leader in the South Car
Olina Legislature is named A Boozer, not
withstanding he is a member of body
which probably has the only authority in
his State to change names.
Mrs. FLORENCE BoULANGER, who lives on
the north shore Of the St. Lawrence river,
has beaten the record. Two years ago she
bore twins, last year triplets, and now she
has given birth to full quartet.
NATURAL gas conducted from its source
IN McKean County, Pa, to Buffalo, in an
eightinch pipe, Travelled at the speed of
ninety miles an hour.
MAGGIE MITCHELL's real estate has
doubled itself in value the past ten years,
and the popular actress is said to be worth
half q million dollars.
w. KENNIE, of San Francisco, says
that city has three hundred young women
who are heiresses to $500, 900 or more each,
and all are unmarried.
THE millionaire must now have several
millions to be considered rich The CEN
tennarian must add ten or score of years
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